About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

Serendipity struck a group of Ohio State University geologists last December as they picked away at the stratified sediment in an ancient ... a single supercontinent, called “Gondwanaland ...

The latest study highlights the role played by Australia’s dinosaurs in the ecosystems of the ancient world, a large part of which was clustered into the giant supercontinent Gondwanaland.

before the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwanaland. This eroded sandstone hill, transformed by volcanic activity, is marked with 112 petroglyphs, or rock engravings. The images depict various ...